the pig

And indeed as soon as she began washing her master, she at once knew the scar as one that had been given him by a wild boar when he was hunting on Mount Parnassus with his excellent grandfather Autolykos - who was the most accomplished thief and perjurer in the whole world - and with the sons of Autolykos.

Odysseus was the first to raise his spear and try to drive it into the brute, but the boar was too quick for him, and charged him sideways, ripping him above the knee with a gash that tore deep though it did not reach the bone.

There were three hundred and sixty boar pigs, and the herdsman's four hounds, which were as fierce as wolves, slept always with them.

And when you know this, there is no doubt that the intelligent man does not choose the state of dogs and the pig over the deeds of the angels brought near, nor choose the lowest depth of the Fire over the highest abode in the abode of permanence.

In it is the greed of the dung-beetle and the pig, the ruinousness of the wolf and the leopard, the harmfulness of the scorpion and the snake, the lust of the cock and the ass, and the craving of the camel and the ox in eating;

To which indeed Chrysippus says that its very soul was given for salt, lest it should rot;

But another said, more authoritatively, that the first blessing is set upon those who did not follow after the wicked judgments — those that apostatized from God;

for those that have no scales, which Moses forbids to touch, feed at the bottom of the sea — "nor stood in the way of sinners" — as those who seem to fear the Lord sin like the pig;

and that these men used to devour the food set out for Hecatê and to gather up on each occasion for their dinner with one another the testicles of the pigs which are offered for purification when the assembly convenes, and that they thought less of swearing and perjuring themselves than of anything else in the world.

The eagle (*nasr*), or strong as an eagle — Arnold The noble stone — Athelston The wolf, or strong as a wolf — Bernard The eagle (*ʻuqāb*), or strong as an eagle — Bertram The wild boar — Everard A ewe — Giles An eagle (*ʻuqāb*) — Ingram A lion — Leonder Like a lion, or like an eagle (*ʻuqāb*) — Leonard A lamb — Oven Wolf of the dwellings — Randal The famous wolf — Rodolph The noble serpent — Ethelnid

Such remained their way down to the first age of Islam and after it, and some of the names of animals are still used for by-naming to this day, their original sense having been forgotten:

On the other side, they gave the animals the names of men or their kunyahs:

Et si porci alicujus liberi hominis una nocte pernoctaverint in foresta nostra, non inde occasionetur ita quod aliquid de suo perdat.

Nullus forestarius vel bedellus decetero faciat scotale, vel colligat garbas, vel avenam, vel bladum aliud, vel agnos, vel porcellos, nec aliquam collectam faciant;